On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Martin Blumenstingl
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Arnd,

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Kevin Hilman [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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Amlogic SoC updates for v4.15
- add SMP support to Meson8/8b

Pulled into next/soc. For my understanding, could you clarify what
this line is needed for on meson?

+textofs-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MESON) := 0x00208000

this was already part of Carlo's version of the SMP patches. I didn't
question this change (I simply assumed that it's relevant - I never
questioned "why" it was relevant) so far
however, that was until Linus L?ssing (CC'ed) investigated a
bug-report from Emiliano Ingrassia (also CC'ed). you can find his
results here: [0]
(tl;dr: kernel refuses to boot without this change when using a
slightly modified multi_v7_defconfig)

Linus even asked me to split this change out into a separate patch [1]
however, by the time I came back home Kevin already sent out the pull request

please let me know if
- we can keep the patches the way they are right now
- or if you want to separate this change into a separate patch

I think it's good enough to keep it this time, especially now that your
explanation is in the mailing list archives. If you get into a similar
situation again, splitting up the patch is better though.

     Arnd